Premiering February 13, 2012, at 9 p.m. ET, SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME is a 90-minute documentary that challenges one of Americans\\\' most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery in this country ended with the Emancipation Proclamation. The film tells how even as chattel slavery came to an end in 1865, thousands of African Americans were pulled back into forced labor with shocking force and brutality.
http://video.pbs.org/program/slavery-another-name/
Enjoy.

Comments

A great and painful examination of the systematic terror waged for decades on a marginalized people.

August Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" and Earnest Gains' "Of Love and Dust" make some allusions to this injustice, but never have I seen its breadth and magnitude so poignantly illustrated as in this well produced documentary.

I am purchasing a copy from PBS so I cannot comment on this particular file however.